[Glade-users] Text Entry Box

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:32 -0600, Michael Fasolino wrote:
> All, 
>
> I am using a Text Entry box (GtkEntry), and am trying to find a way to
> align the text in such a way that when the text is longer than the
> entry box can display, it will display the last part of the text and
> not the first.   
>
> Specifically, I am allowing the user to enter in a file name (with
> path).  I also have a button to allow the user to create the "next"
> output file (which adds an index to the existing file name).  My
> problem is that when I hit the "Next" button the alignment of the text
> in the Entry Box slides to the beginning of the file name, and thus
> all I am able to see is the directory structure and not the file
> name.   
>
> It seemed alining the text so the last part would be visible should be
> possible, but I could not find how to do it anywhere in the
> documentation... Is there something that I am missing?   
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

You can set the cursor position to the end using this function:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkEditable.html#gtk-editable-set-position

Cheers,
              -Tristan